According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the first King of Wessex was Cerdic, who reigned from 519 to 534. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was written centuries later, and the historic record is quite unclear. At least one important historian places Cerdic's reign as 538 to 554, but there is no proof one way or the other. Cerdic, by the way, is a Welsh name, not Saxon. Cynric, who was the next King of Wessex, also had a Welsh name, as did Ceawlin, who followed him. It all makes me very suspicious of those Anglo-Saxons and their Chronicle. There is a link below to a list of Kings of Wessex.
Ine was the king of Wessex 688 to 726. Ine was the first Wessex king to issue a code of laws and was one of the most powerful kings of Wessex.
Egbert is considered traditionally to be the first king of England. There are people to claim other kings to have been the first, including King Offa, King Athelstan, and possibly others. The question is not one of history, however, but one of semantics, with the arguers basing their claims on differing ideas of what "King of England" means.
Alfred the Great, King of England, did NOT rule a province. He ruled England, a country, because he was KING of ENGLAND. His kingdom was centred in Wessex, (West Saxons). Inmodern England, itv is the region of southern England into Somerset and Devon.
Alfred the Great became king in 871 to 899 (long long ago)
Cynric (son of Cerdic) became The King of Wessex from 534-560.
Cynric was the son of Cerdic The king of Wessex.
Ceawlin (son of Cynric) was the King of Wesex from 560-591.
Cynric of Wessex died in 560.
King Alfred Was the Wessex King During the Battle of the Wessex People and the Danes
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the first King of Wessex was Cerdic, who reigned from 519 to 534. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was written centuries later, and the historic record is quite unclear. At least one important historian places Cerdic's reign as 538 to 554, but there is no proof one way or the other. Cerdic, by the way, is a Welsh name, not Saxon. Cynric, who was the next King of Wessex, also had a Welsh name, as did Ceawlin, who followed him. It all makes me very suspicious of those Anglo-Saxons and their Chronicle. There is a link below to a list of Kings of Wessex.
Ine was the king of Wessex 688 to 726. Ine was the first Wessex king to issue a code of laws and was one of the most powerful kings of Wessex.
Cerdic was The King of Wessex from 519-534.
The Earl of Wessex is the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II
There were different groups of Saxons, and they had many kingdoms, both in Britain and on the continent. The continental Saxons included some who lived in a kingdom called Saxony. They early history of this country is very obscure, but its last king was Widukind. He was defeated in a long war with the Franks under Charlemagne, who ruled Saxony after that. There were also other groups of Saxons on the continent, with a number of kingdoms in what are now the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Romania; again, the history of these is rather obscure. The Saxons in Britain founded the kingdoms of Essex, Middlesex, Sussex, and Wessex. These kingdoms were eventually united under the kings of Wessex, who were ancestral to nearly all later English monarchs. The earliest of the kings of Wessex, who established that kingdom were Cerdic and his son, Cynric. The king who united the English was Egbert. Possibly the most famous and important Saxon king was Alfred the Great. There is a link below to an article on the Saxons.
Francis Cynric Sheridan has written: 'Galveston Island'
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